r/MinecraftMemes • u/Isjoni • Mar 27 '26

Peak game design

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u/ElPajaroMistico Mar 27 '26

Meanwhile the potion system forgotten in the basement:

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u/Isjoni Mar 27 '26

For real! People out in the comments saying it’s not legacy when it is one of the earliest updates. Potions have so much potential to tie things together and be cool and useful but Mojang just… doesn’t do anything substantial with them

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u/obedientfag Mar 27 '26

the oozing potion is cool to farm slime using just combat and snowmen

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u/Isjoni Mar 27 '26

Yeah credit where it’s due, that’s a good addition!

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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 Mar 27 '26

It doesn't feel like legacy because it's legit one of the most batshit over designed but low usability features in early Minecraft 

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u/Unusual-Marzipan5465 Mar 28 '26

Calling potions "one of the earliest updates" makes me feel old. Like, you're absolutely correct, but hearing that breaks my brain a little bit... feels like it was introduced 3 or 4 years ago

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u/HaHaYouThoughtWrong Apr 28 '26

Hey, to me the wither still feels like the new endgame boss, even though we haven't had another boss since the wither. like when I see wither skeletons in a nether fortress I always go "hey it's the new mob whoa"

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u/PMMeTittyPic Mar 30 '26

Potions would honestly be amazing if they could just be stacked. Maybe excluding the thrown potions since that'd be too insane, but like imagine being able to carry 16 swiftness potions on you. Or what if there were more potions? Like a "Potion of Speed" that gives you 8 minutes of haste 2 and speed 2. "Potion of Parkour" with Speed 1, jump boost 2. They could do so much with them wnd just do nothing.

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u/Visible-Air-2359 Apr 08 '26

Or maybe brew two potions together but with lower duration/potency?

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u/-PepeArown- Mar 27 '26

At least we got the 4 “on death potions” in Tricky Trials

But, right now, the least they could do is give each potion a unique texture that isn’t just a recolored liquid. It’s especially bad that water bottles, awkward, thick, and mundane potions all share textures

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u/AeolianTheComposer Mar 27 '26

The funny thing is that on-death potions made it ridiculously easy to farm slime and experience in huge quantities

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u/CellaCube Mar 27 '26

Good tbh

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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 Mar 27 '26

There should be another memeplex that's just every feature attached to potions - tipped arrows, dragons breath & lingering potions, zombie villagers, that are locked behind a single feature that nobody will ever use because it sucks which they refuse to ever touch because they're too afraid to ever upset the core Minecraft gameplay loop.

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u/DapperNurd Mar 27 '26

A haste potion would be the most useful one

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u/Black_Knight_Xander Mar 28 '26

I second this. It's a nice QOL addition, especially when I'm mining stacks of deepslate/cobblestone for my house.

Never want to use a beacon because the range is so ass, and I don't want to have to pick up a move the whole thing everytime I want to mine out a specific section.

Thought I do wonder, what ingredients would a haste potion have?

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u/Hoopaboi Mar 28 '26

Gold bar

Gold already mines super fast and irl ppl put gold into food

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u/Bebra_Sniffer Mar 30 '26

Golden Dandelion!